Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[Mage]

I can't see it being any worse than the prequels. I gave up on those when they killed Darth Maul instead of Jar Jar Binks in the first movie.

Thing is everyone would have cheered if Jar Jar died. Maul's death to me was the saddest part of that very first movie in the new trilogy. Such an awesome character and character design.

Someone should program a flash game where the player as Darth Maul gets to slice as many Jar Jar Binkses in 5 minutes as possible. This would relieve the anger and frustration of millions of star wars fans who simultaneously fell to dark side due to hatred for this gungan. The time limit is there to give player a challenge as obviously it's impossible to lose.

 

[jimukr104]

Black storm troopers....weird considering the empire were racists. Will we find out Luke was gay too?

Clone wars cartoon was better than those prequels.

 

[Mage]

Black storm troopers....weird considering the empire were racists. Will we find out Luke was gay too?

Clone wars cartoon was better than those prequels.

I don't remember anything in original movies about empire being racists. Sure they appeared spaciesist, with only humans forming ranks, but I thing caring about race within a species in a world with hundreds of sentient species is a bit absurd.

Anyway I suspect this black stormtrooper is actually a hero wearing stormtrooper uniform, like Luke and han did in the original movie.

 

[RexImperator]

Clone wars cartoon was better than those prequels.

When I think back on the prequels, they really were almost like cartoons, with all the green screen filming and CG sets.

 

[Broady]

I hope they don't fuck it up like Mad Max

 

[Sonsowey]

Was that Pink Darth Vader for real?

 

[jimukr104]

I don't remember anything in original movies about empire being racists. Sure they appeared spaciesist, with only humans forming ranks, but I thing caring about race within a species in a world with hundreds of sentient species is a bit absurd.

Yeah your probably right. Seems they just didn't like non humans.

 

[DickDastardly]

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[Libertas]

I don't think it will be any good at all.

Forget the controversies over various politically correct topics right now. Obviously those detract from recent movies but there's an even more important trend than that.

This, like so many other things coming out of Hollywood now, is basically just milking a franchise that has long reached its natural limit for a quick cash getaway. This is basically what's happening with all these endless sequels, prequels, midquels, reboots, etc. etc. They are the detritus of franchises whose glory days are long behind them attempting to make money on the brand name alone.

Star Wars as a blockbuster film franchise reached its natural limit in 2005 with Revenge of the Sith. That completed the arc of the Star Wars story - the corruption and redemption of Anakin Skywalker through his own journey and the journey of the son who redeemed him. The evil that corrupted him also got its just desserts in the end.

Yes, the first two movies in prequel trilogy were hands down terrible and the third was at best mediocre, but at the very least they were part of the original story, the furnace that fueled the rise of the franchise.

What this is is just an overshoot, analogous to cheap credit and debt to support consumption well beyond its natural limit. The product will thus be stale, lifeless, and overdone. They'll sprinkle some fancy CGI to pretend that everything is OK, much like the wider society sprinkles smartphones on us to make us believe everything is OK. It's the same thing with Star Wars as it has been with many other franchises, most infamously now Mad Max. Feminist neurosis is to be expected from a franchise desperately trying to cling on and be relevant beyond its natural limit of expansion.

It will be the same with this one. Mark my words.

 

[kbell]

I liked in the original series the light sabers seemed more dangerous and heavy. They didn't do as many crazy things with it since they were more concerned about injuring themselves and the battles seemed more realistic.

I expect them to do more battles like the prequels which seemed to throw out physics and the dangers of dealing with a weapon that could easily dismember the user. It also seemed more choreographed like a dance as well.

 

[UroboricForms]

I hated what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek. He took all the depth and substance out of it and turned it into just another flashy action flick full of one liners. They work as flashy action flicks but its not Star Trek. Then again, Star Wars was never meant to be as "deep" as Star Trek so his formula will probably work alright. Its a space opera, not a political drama.

One of the lead villains has been confirmed to be GOT she-bull Gwendolyn Christie, to answer previous questions about stupid feminist "bad ass female lead" tropes.

I'm looking forward to the space battles with X-Wings and TIE Fighters and the return of practical effects, and seeing the old faces again. That's about it. I'm not looking forward to seeing how Abrams and co. have carelessly tossed the last few decades of expanded universe material out of the window.

 

[DickDastardly]

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[LeeEnfield303]

I hated what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek. He took all the depth and substance out of it and turned it into just another flashy action flick full of one liners.

IOW, he made the "Star Wars" version of "Star Trek." No one should be surprised.

 

[DickDastardly]

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[Carlos100]

Anyone else getting this pop-up when they open this thread

"A user name and password are being requested by http://www.a-work-of-art.net. The site says: "IIS - a-work-of-art.net""

Yes, I'm getting that pop-up repeatedly when I have this thread open.

I watched Episode IV for the first time in years last night. It brought back memories as I'm old enough to remember when it originally hit the theaters in 1977. It's the only movie I know that had viewers of all ages whooping and hollering and giving other strangers "low five" (this was before the high five caught on) as they were walking out of the theater. It was like nothing that anyone had ever seen before.

All the Star Wars movies since then plus many other Sci-Fi operas seem to be attempts to recapture that feeling, even just a little of it.

 

[cascadecombo]

I light saber could just cut right through at the base of the grib, I can't see how the guard have a practical. The vikings had it right the first time around, guards just get in the way of fighting.

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I'm confused, but I haven't studied much history so you might know more than I do on the subject.

What's that image you tried to post? It's the same link as that pop-up that I got when I opened this page, along with other posters.

 

[The Beast1]

How much you all want to bet that the "light side" of the force becomes dark and the dark side becomes light? Completing the cyclical nature of rebellions and the like.

 

[eljeffster]

The original Star Wars was like some kind of meat an potatoes country restaurant. Always satisfying. With the "new" star wars episodes 1-3 it was like the cook started taking shits in the gravy, so I stopped eating and never returned. Now the restaurant says "under new management." Do I really want to go back?

 

[Thomas More]

I hated what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek. He took all the depth and substance out of it and turned it into just another flashy action flick full of one liners.

I hated it too. I was surprised, because it had over 90% on rotten tomatoes at the time it was released. The thing I hated most was that they had the planet Vulcan destroyed, and had Spock see his mother plunge into a crevice in the ground, which are horrific things, but at the end of the movie, they all stand around with funny quips. All's well that ends well? Not when a whole freakin' planet was destroyed! Everybody ought to be horribly shell shocked and grief stricken.

I've seen Dr. Who do this, where the Tardis pops into a remote inn on earth, he discovers an ancient alien being lives under the inn, and is about to destroy the earth, but he manages to kill the alien and save the earth. Everybody in the inn is killed one by one, so when he pops out in his Tardis at the end of the show, it leaves a mystery for Earth authorities who find what appears to be a mass murder. Still, Dr. Who is campy, and can pull this off. Acting like everything's fine when Vulcan was destroyed does not work.

</overly geeky rant>

 

[PainPositive]

What about "BoycottStarWarsVII: People Boycott The Force Awakens Because It Promotes “White Genocide” ?

What do you guys think?